Now, go back to sleep eco-warriors or keep sucking on that joint. I am not looking for a “We are destroying the world look at the pollution” answer here!!
I mean literally destroy (obliterate, mollicate etc.), split the earth in two, much like the now conspiratorial boasts of Nikola Tesla.
How would we go about doing it? If we had access to all of the atomic weapons of the world where would we place them? Would this even scare the earth’s surface? Are there better ways to do this?
Do humans overrate their importance, is it that we really are insignificant? Is it wrong to ask such a question, why? Are you oversensitive and overprotective? Do you think the world will last forever, are you a materialist etc. etc.
2007-01-18 08:27:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Gee, I hope not. That's where I keep all my stuff.
2007-01-18 08:35:14 · answer #1 · answered by mmd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the real world of physics it is probably impossible. Considering the mass of the earth and mankind's (existing) available energy (nuclear etc) we may possibly be able to dig another grand canyon and screw up the atmosphere for a few months...
That is not to say with a concerted global effort enough countries producing enough weapons grade fissionable materials and tritium deuterium mix we couldn't achieve a sort of Armageddon...
Very expensive, and not really worth the effort.
2007-01-19 01:29:41 · answer #2 · answered by Gunny T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we could wreck the life-carrying capacity of the biosphere in many ways, but we could not actually destroy the whole planet.
We probably could not even destroy ALL life in the biosphere even if we set off every atomic weapon on Earth simultaneously. Bacteria and some bugs would thrive in the postapocalyptic horror. If any of the higher life forms survived the initial conflagration, they would certainly not be the lucky ones.
2007-01-18 08:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theoretically if we gathered enough isotopic hydrogen we could build a fusion bomb big enough that if strategically placed somewhere deep inside the earth we could actually scatter the planet into millions of little pieces. But with our current weapons and tools it more than likely is not possible to literally destroy the world., just make it uninhabitable or change the landscape a little
2007-01-18 11:35:29 · answer #4 · answered by chris s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the easiest way would be to alter our orbit so that we go "spinning" into the sun.
Yes we could scar the earth's surface. A nuclear bomb set off close to the ground could easily do what meteorites have done to us in the past (as far as making craters)
2007-01-18 08:36:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea. there are plenty of ways that mankind can destroy the world. make earth go off orbit and mazke it crash in to the sun, mars, mercury venus, etc.
2007-01-18 14:40:21 · answer #6 · answered by FallingOutWithFallOutBoy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Mother nature is far more pwerful than man ,humans merely try to copy her.Lindsay.
2007-01-18 08:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by Lindsay Jane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not. Why do you ask.
2007-01-18 12:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋